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Amoeblog posts marked with luniz.Hip-Hop History Tuesdays: April 1996 Bay Area Hip-Hop Top 50 Chart and Hip-Hop News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><span style="font-size: small;"> BAY AREA HIP-HOP&nbsp;TOP 50&nbsp; Week ending April 6, 1996 <br />
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<img width="140" hspace="7" height="140" align="left" title="Bay Area rap compilation stands test of time" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/c79665t81x1.jpg" alt="Recommended Bay Area Rap Compilation from mid nineties" /> 1) Various Artists <strong><em>Cell Block Compilation</em></strong> (Cell Block/Priority)<br />
2) <strong>Rappin' 4-Tay</strong> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/ain-t-no-playa-like-12-rappin-4-tay/albums/843013/"><em>Aint No Playa</em></a> (Rag Top/Chrysalis)<br />
3) <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/63198"><strong>Conscious Daughters</strong></a> <em>Gamer</em>s (Priority)<br />
4) <strong>2Pac </strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/all-eyez-on-me-reissue-cd-2pac/albums/777712/"><em>All Eyez On Me</em></a> (Death Row)<br />
5) <strong>IMP</strong><em> Ill Mannered Playas</em> (In-A-Minute)<br />
6) <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/63812"><strong>Mac Mall</strong></a><em><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/63812"><strong> </strong></a>Get Right</em> (Relativity) <br />
7) <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/64418"><strong>Peanut Butter Wolf </strong></a><em>Step On Our Egos </em>(South Paw)<br />
8)<strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/90556"> Too $hort</a> </strong><em>Gettin' It&nbsp;</em> 12&quot;&nbsp; (Jive)<br />
9) <strong>N.O.A.</strong> <em>forilla </em>(120)<br />
10) <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/322754">The Delinquents</a> </strong><em>Smooth Getaway</em> (Dank Or Die) <br />
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<img width="140" hspace="7" height="140" align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/d599345k0722.jpg" alt="" /> 11) <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/90520"><strong>Suga T</strong></a> <em>Paper Chasin</em>' (Sick Wid It/Jive)<br />
12) <strong>Twisted Mind Kids</strong> <em>Twisted Mind State </em>(8-song demo - No Exit)<br />
13)<strong> Lateef </strong><em>T<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/the-wreckoning-12-lateef-the-truth-speaker/albums/1029329/">he Wreckoning/Latyrx</a></em> (Solesides)<br />
14) <strong>MadFace</strong> <em>Black Attracts Heat </em>(Corn Field) <br />
15) <strong>Lil Gangsta P</strong> <em>meet the lil gangsta</em> (Erin)<br />
16)&nbsp; V/A <em>The Dangerous Crew</em> (Dangerous/Jive)<br />
17) <strong>Richie Rich</strong><em> Half Thang</em> (41510/Shot)<br />
18) <strong>Milkman</strong> feat Da Goonz <em>Reminisce</em> (Major Music)<br />
19) <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/63553">Hobo Junction</a> </strong><em>E.P</em>. (South Paw)<br />
20) <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/211892"><strong>Sacred Hoop</strong> </a><em>demo tape</em> (Miasmatic)<br />
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Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:18:30 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2014/07/jamoeblog/hip-hop-history-tuesdays-april-1996-bay-area-hip-hop-top-50-chart-and-hip-hop-news.htmlHip-Hop Songs To Celebrate 420 <p>
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<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </strong></span><strong>Bone Thugs~N~Harmony &quot;Weed Song&quot;<br />
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Happy Easter! </strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);"><strong>Happy 420!</strong></span> Both holidays, which fall today, seem almost equally <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong><img align="left" alt="" hspace="8" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/420weed-1.jpg" vspace="8" /></strong></span>accepted and mainstream, especially in states such as California, Colorado, and Washington. But it wasn&#39;t always that way. The first time I personally became aware of the symbolism of <span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">420</span> and what it meant was back in the mid &#39;90s when I was over in Amsterdam reporting on the<strong><em> High Times</em></strong> sponsored <strong>Cannabis Cup </strong>for the <strong>San&nbsp;Francisco Bay Guardian</strong>. During that week of events in the Dutch city long associated with cannabis, I noticed how at exactly 4:20pm each afternoon without fail everyone would stop whatever they were doing to spark one up. Of course, most stoners don&#39;t need an excuse or specific time to remind them to indulge in the sticky icky, but that doesn&#39;t stop folks from observing the hour of 4:20 (pm or am) as if it were a religious holiday. Weed lore has it that celebrating 4:20 dates back to the early 1970&#39;s when, somewhere in NorCal near Humboldt - longtime the epicenter of California weed-growing, a group of friends chose that time of the day to light up. Since then the time morphed into the date of April 20th as a celebratory time and nowadays it seems everyone, smokers and non-smokers alike, are well aware of the meaning of 4:20.&nbsp;<br />
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Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:06:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2014/04/jamoeblog/hip-hop-songs-to-celebrate-420-.htmlBAY AREA HIP-HOP ARCHIVES: SHOWS & FLIERS 1984-1996&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="480" height="288" align="middle" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/sc0001159f.jpg" alt="" /><br />
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Since I (finally) got a new scanner, I am now able to go back into my <strong>Bay Area Hip-Hop Archives</strong> and start scanning and posting all of these wonderful slices of music history from the last 20+ years in Yay Area rap. Ranging from 1984 to 1996, these are some show fliers plus a ticket stub (above) which is from the first time I went to check out the <strong>Egyptian Lover</strong> and <strong>Uncle Jamm's Army * </strong>-- the LA turntable army (who were really hot at the time - especially the Egyptian Lover, whose single <em><strong>&quot;Egypt Egypt&quot;/&quot;What is A DJ If He Can't Scratch</strong></em>&quot; ruled at the time) -- when they came north to the Bay Area to do a show at the cavernous <strong>Richmond Auditorium.</strong> Rap shows, especially large scale ones, were still a relatively new phenomenon in the Bay Area in '84. It would still be a couple of years before the <strong>Fresh Fest</strong> (<strong>Whodini, Kuritis Blow, Fat Boys</strong>, etc) happened and rolled through Oakland (and that was a totally exciting new experience, to check out a large scale hip-hop festival with all of these major acts in the one place!). But in the few years before '84 I only remember going to the very, very occasional rap show, such as <strong>Grand Master Flash &amp; Furious Five</strong> at the <strong>Berkeley Square,</strong> which was in '82 I believe, But I do clearly remember some very vocally disgruntled club goers at the long defunct University Ave venue complaining that they had forked over their money but there was no band -- just a DJ and bunch of rappers on mics (twas early days for sure).<br />
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Anyway Uncle Jamm's Army would return to the East Bay within a month that summer of '84 when they performed with <strong>Run DMC </strong>at the <strong>Oakland Convention Center </strong>(see flyer below and note its very basic layout -- this was in the pre-photoshop days). Also note the low ticket price of only <strong>$6.50</strong> for each show.&nbsp; The other Bay Area rap concert fliers below include one or two that actually never happened-- like the 1994 <strong>Music People / In-A-Minute </strong>showcase, scheduled during the annual music convention that always attracted a lot of hip-hop acts from all over the country, the<strong> Gavin Seminar</strong> in San Francisco. That show fell through at the last minute due to the club not being able to get insurance (a common problem with rap shows then and now).&nbsp; And with some of these shows, the venue is long gone, such as t<strong>he Omni </strong>(&quot;the Bay Area's largest showcase nightclub&quot; on Shattuck at 48th near Telegraph) in North Oakland where <strong>Young MC</strong> headlined in September 1989 with Bay Area artists <strong>Paris, APG Crew, Captial Tax,</strong> and <strong>Step G </strong>with <strong>MC Sirgeo</strong> all opening for him. Another time within about a year of that show, <strong>Too $hort </strong>headlined at the Omni -- doing his typical no-frills, straight up rap concert. (This was a time when another Oakland rapper, <strong>MC Hammer</strong>'s stage shows were huge choreographed events -- Too $hort was the proud antitheses of that.)<br />
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Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:10:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2007/09/jamoeblog/bay-area-hip-hop-archives-shows-fliers-1984-1996.htmlSCRILLA AS RAP PROMO: LUNIZ TO YUNG NITTLZ<p><img width="210" height="168" align="left" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/YngNIttlz_1955.JPG" /></p>
<p>When I ran into aspiring young Bay Area rap star <strong>Yung Nittlz</strong> at the recent <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2007/07/jamoeblog/showtime-at-the-apollo-tryouts-in-oakland-this-weekend.html#comments">Showtime @ the Apollo</a> Amateur NIght tryouts at the <strong>Oakland Convention Center,</strong> he was handing out his self-designed promo item --&nbsp;an oversized five dollar bill with his image and contact info. What really impressed me&nbsp;is that Yung Nittlz, as his name implies, is&nbsp;young. Very young -- 13 years of age, and already the freshman at Berkeley High School has taught himself to make beats, and has written and recorded two albums worth of music, set up his <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=92850770">MySpace</a>, and found time to perfect his computer design skills by designing things such as his <strong>Five Dolla Promo</strong> item to promote his song &quot;Money In The Air&quot; that he printed out (two-sided) and cut to size at his local Copy Central. (Note: for my full report on the Showtime at the Apollo Oakland tryouts -- previewed in earlier AMOEBLOG -- check out this week's San Francisco <a href="http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4213&amp;catid=107&amp;volume_id=254&amp;issue_id=309&amp;volume_num=41&amp;issue_num=45"><em>Bay Guardian</em></a>).</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">When I saw his cool promo item I remembered that the <strong>Luniz </strong>-- or rather their label<strong> Noo&nbsp;<img width="100" height="111" align="right" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/IMG_2120.JPG" />Trybe</strong>, a division of <strong>Virgin </strong>-- created a similar promo item upon the release of the Oakland duo's debut album <em><strong>Operation Stackola</strong></em> (which reached stores on July 4, 1995) and its huge hit single <em><strong>&quot;I Got Five On It.&quot; </strong></em>But that was a long time ago, when 13 year old Yung Nittlz was a baby -- only age one. It was a time when labels were still making money (as in profits, not promo funny-money), especially rap labels or divisions, and&nbsp;were often&nbsp;extremely creative and experimental in their promo items. Many others (especially Yay Area rappers) have used paper money as promotional material, including the <strong>Conscious Daughters</strong> for their comeback album (pictured right).</p><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2007/08/jamoeblog/scrilla-as-rap-promo-luniz-to-yung-nittlz.html">Continue reading...</a></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2007/08/jamoeblog/scrilla-as-rap-promo-luniz-to-yung-nittlz.html
Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:15:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2007/08/jamoeblog/scrilla-as-rap-promo-luniz-to-yung-nittlz.html